The Winner Is: Kate Winslet

Watching Kate Winslett win her first “Golden Globe” award last night for her role as a very sensual, Nazi concentration-camp guard in “The Reader”, I mentioned to my friend that the media has been relentless on Winslett over her “weight problem”.

Winslett & DiCaprio at 2008 Golden Globe Awards

The Reader - Trailer 1

Winslet admits that the Titanic star did have a weight problem as a teenager, but that her body has now settled into its own rhythm, two children later. Note that her weight was 10 stone at 5’6”, making her 140 pounds. Today she weights 7 stone or 121 pounds.

Kate Winslet is a bombshell, and it’s difficult to believe that she doesn’t exercise, even though she denies having time right now. This recent Telegraph UK interview says that Kate does Pilates, 20 minutes a day, at home.

Totally candid about issues of weight, the gorgeous actress told the BBC: “I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner… . “I’ve got a lovely husband and children, and I didn’t lose weight to find those things.” (Good Housekeeping)

Winslet credits dear friend and “Titanic” co-star Leonardo DiCapricio with aggressively challenging her to get over her self-image problems over weight, saying: “You’ve really got to let the whole weight thing go.”

Winslet’s women characters are atypical, with her physicality and body — including nudity — a cornerstone of her imagery.

In her recent editorial “spread” for Vanity Fair, where she channels Catherine Deneuve, Winslett is every bit the Yummy Mummy.  Both the actress and magazine insisted that her photos weren’t digitally altered, as they were on her now infamous GQ UK cover.

Golden Globe Best Actress “Revolutionary Road”

Winslett’s second Golden Globe award last night, her Best Actress role in “Revolutionary Road”, a 1950s drama directed by her husband Sam Mendes, positions her for a long-desired Oscar.

Close: Sense, Sensibility & The Obvious

I forgot that Kate Winslet’s first major film was the 1995 Jane Austen’s British drama “Sense and Sensibility”.

Close to Sense & Sensuality, but no cigar. Perhaps we are the evolution, as Kate’s pervasive, erotically gorgeous film images remind us.

Bravo, Kate … for trying to lead a “real woman’s” life in a celluloid world that can’t help adoring your womanly sensuality.

Love, Anne